Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our ‘ Palatinate Lager ’ brand has continued to enjoy steady growth , supported by a series of TV advertisements . |
| 2 | The application of natural justice to preliminary hearings or investigations has tended to produce polarised arguments : the public body arguing that procedural rules have no place in the context of such hearings or investigations , and the individual asserting that they should apply in their full vigour . |
| 3 | Sir Patrick has promised to give new talks ‘ direction and focus ’ , by providing some new parameters , which do not include joint authority or exclusively internal arrangements . |
| 4 | The Blues ' striker has failed to agree new terms with manager Howard Kendall which could signal his departure from Goodison Park . |
| 5 | Parliament has intervened to give special protection to press reports of statements made on significant public occasions , and there are hints — no more — that in certain cases the courts may be prepared to extend protection of qualified privilege to media investigations of major public scandals . |
| 6 | But the report also confirmed that most of the UK 's manufacturing base has had to face rising costs for overseas raw materials as a result of the devaluation of sterling . |
| 7 | THE recession has continued to take heavy toll of National Westminster Bank , Britain 's second-largest clearer . |
| 8 | ‘ Ian has decided to pursue other activities , ’ said a BBC spokesman yesterday . |
| 9 | The Lake District Planning Board has sought to limit new houses to local people , but this attempt was overturned by the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 10 | As the National Coal Board has continued to cut coal-mining employment there after the end of the strike , it has placed great emphasis upon the role of its job-creating subsidiary , NCB ( Enterprises ) in providing alternative jobs . |
| 11 | ‘ Even if the Mad Killer epithet will be attributed to me by the media , I consider myself a rational erudite that only the arrival of the Grim Reaper has forced to take extreme acts . |
| 12 | THE Wine and Spirit Association has threatened to take formal complaints of environmental health officers ( EHOs ) ‘ deemed to have abused their authority ’ to Government level . |
| 13 | Despite the sustained onslaught from the monetarists and , more virulently , from the new classical macroeconomics , the Keynesian research programme has continued to make significant progress on a variety of fronts . |
| 14 | With some exceptions ( notably Renault French industry has failed to install modern manufacturing equipment . |
| 15 | So the lighting industry has had to seek additional phosphors to provide the demanding colour rendering of such installations . |
| 16 | The WNO has sought to introduce young people and communities in general to opera in those locations . |
| 17 | Academic study has tended to emphasise critical thought as the natural companion to learning a subject . |
| 18 | However , the occasional study has failed to demonstrate increased platelet aggregation in diabetics free of vascular disease ( Petersen & Gormsen , 1978 ; Corbella et al , 1979 ) and certainly it would appear from the studies as a whole that platelet aggregation is more enhanced in diabetics with complications . |
| 19 | Thereafter confusion set in and , from scenes of events , groups of figures , etc. , presented on a very small scale , the term has come to mean elaborate pictures , much more ambitious than the historiations and sometimes extending to the whole of a large page . |
| 20 | Because of that , the CITB has had to introduce various schemes using its own investment to tide it over what it believed at the outset would be a short recession , but which has now become a very deep and long recession . |
| 21 | Considering the concern he has had lately , Montgomerie has managed to play superb golf . |
| 22 | The research has sought to gather comprehensive information on financial support to firms in the study area over the period 1974-84 . |
| 23 | In regard to giving ‘ due impartiality ’ to news presentation , the journalists had failed to give proper weight to the qualification of impartiality by the word ‘ due ’ . |
| 24 | For example in the case of the airline employees the revenue had sought to tax concessionary travel on the average cost basis but their claim had failed before the commissioners and they had not persisted in that claim . |
| 25 | For their part , the Khmers Rouges claimed that UNTAC had failed to implement major aspects of the 1989 peace agreement , namely the full verification of Vietnam 's troop withdrawal from Cambodia and the strengthening of the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) . |
| 26 | According to French radio reports on March 16 , the opposition had decided to boycott senatorial elections scheduled for April 3 . |
| 27 | The department had hoped to reach flexible service agreements with many voluntary bodies , but the city 's lawyers told them they either had to give grants ( guaranteeing nothing in return ) or set binding contracts . |
| 28 | Sue Amphlett , director of the organisation , having studied the Scottish Guidelines , outlined nine main areas where Orkney Social Work Department had failed to implement proper procedures and practices . |
| 29 | Apparently Merton College had refused to take northern students and Oxford had been plunged into chaos and riot . |
| 30 | Rumsey denied Alliance charges that Labour had failed to make full use of opportunities provided by the government for provision of relief works . |